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Aikey delivers on promise of fifth Super Nationals championship

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 10) – After winning a second straight and fourth career IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s title last September, Jeff Aikey promised to return to Boone Speedway and add to his Late Model championship collection. He made good on that promise Thursday night in an epic Deery Brothers Summer Series battle with Justin Kay and Richie Gustin, two other drivers who came into the night looking to race their way into the record book. Aikey becomes the third driver to win five career Super Nationals crowns and the first to win three in a row. “After we came here on Memorial Day, I told my crew we had to make the car faster. We had a fast car tonight, let me tell you,” said Aikey, who’d qualified through his ‘B’ feature and started 15th. “I’ll be back next year to make it four in a row.” The victory, Aikey’s series career 65th, paid $3,510. That amount includes a $510 Speedway Motors Weekly Racing bonus. Kay was second by not much [Read More]

Starting from the pole

The car that will be starting from the pole in the Super Nationals Modified main event has an interesting lineage: It’s a 2008 GRT Mike Hagen bought beat up for all of $4,000 from Ed Turnbull. “I was second at Williston in points. The car ran good all year,” said Hagen, whose Wednesday qualifying feature win was his IMCA first this season. “I went out (in the qualifier) and tried to hit my marks all night and it went good.” He’s raced for 30 years, 27 of them in a Modified. Hagen will make his first-ever main event start on Saturday in front of a Boone Speedway crowd with plenty of fans cheering on their favorites from North Dakota and Canada. Hagen also races at Minot and Estevan and credits his local track competition with helping him prep for Boone. “I race with a lot of tough guys,” he said, before signing an autograph in the Fan Zone. “It’s hard to get a lot of wins racing against them.” * Mike Nichols proved to be [Read More]

Scholpp beats the odds and returns to racing

BOONE, Iowa – Fifty-odd phone call calls and 20 or so texts followed Kody Scholpp’s run to the checkers in Wednesday night’s first Modified qualifying feature at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. The Estevan, Sask., driver earned his career second berth in the Saturday night main event at Boone Speedway. He’d been the first Canadian to qualify for the Modified show and finished seventh in 2013. “It seems like I ran second forever and my tires went away. I had to work just to hold on to seventh,” said Scholpp, who made sure four new Hoosiers were on the car this time around. “Winning (the qualifier) was awesome. I was smiling every time around the track I was so happy.” His very large racing family was smiling right along with him: Scholpp had sustained injuries including a broken neck and back in a January, 2014 motor vehicle accident and doctors weren’t sure that he’d walk again, let alone survive. He was hospitalized for 42 days, about a third of that time in [Read More]

Thursday Results

IMCA Modifieds A-Main 01 — 1. Kyle Strickler, Mooresville, N.C.; 2. Wade Cross, Phillips, Neb.; 3. Brian Irvine, Oelwein; 4. Justin Auringer, Waterloo; 5. Troy Cordes, Dunkerton; 6. Adam Larson, Ankeny; 7. Tyler Droste, Waterloo; 8. Craig Reetz, Dunlap; 9. Clint Hatlestad, Glencoe, Minn.; 10. Cory Davis, Eunice, N.M; 11. Mike VanGenderen, Newton; 12. Jay Matthias, Green Bay, Wis; 13. Richie Gustin, Gilman; 14. Chase Allen, Midlothian, Texas; 15. Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn.; 16. Clint Homan, Bellevue, Neb.; 17. Clint Wendel, Mason City; 18. Bob Moore, Sioux City; 19. Tyler Heetland, Bancroft; 20. Brian Schmitt, Wall Lake; 21. Robert Avery, Des Moines; 22. Kaleb Bentley, Fairbank; 23. Harvey Vande Weerd, Alton; 24. MCDANIEL RANDY, Olivehurst, Calif.; 25. Rich Lewerke, Mason City; 26. Matthew Kiner, Aurora, Neb.; 27. Brian Knoell, Falun, Kan.; 28. Terry Hurt, Omaha, Neb.; 29. Brandon Rothzen, Gladstone, Ill.; 30. Ryan McDaniel, Olivehurst, Calif.. A-Main 02 — 1. Jordan Grabouski, Beatrice, Neb.; 2. Aaron Turnbull, Estevan, SK; 3. Jeff Taylor, Cave City, Ark.; 4. William Gould, Calera, Okla.; 5. Jeremy Mills, Garner; 6. [Read More]

Fifth Super Nationals trip is Montgomery’s Modified first

Photos taped above a workbench in Jeremy Montgomery’s trailer document highlights of his racing career. He’s hoping to add to that display following his first IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s outing in the Modified division. The Burleson, Texas, driver has made two trips to Boone Speedway to race a Hobby Stock and two more with a Stock Car. He and his dad Eddie changed three tires on the trailer on their trip north but still arrived in Boone with sunny dispositions. “What I want to do here is learn a lot, have a little bit of fun and be competitive,” Montgomery said. He ran third in his Wednesday heat behind heavy hitters Russ Dickerson and J.D. Auringer, then finished 10th in an equally stacked ‘B’ main. “I raced the Prelude on Saturday, broke a tie rod in my heat and didn’t qualify out of my ‘B,’” said Montgomery. “We made a lot of changes in the car on Sunday and I think it’s 100 percent better.” The first win of his rookie season [Read More]

Scholpp, Beaulieu, Hagen share Super Nationals Modified spotlight

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 9) – Canadians Kody Scholpp and Jason Beaulieu put an international stamp on the International Motor Contest Association’s biggest event Wednesday night. Scholpp was the winner and Beaulieu finished fourth in the first IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s qualifying feature for Modifieds. They’ll join second running Dylan Smith and third place finisher Corey Dripps in the starting field for Saturday’s main event at Boone Speedway. North Dakota’s Mike Hagen captured the second qualifier, ahead of Josh Most and the top two drivers in the battle for national championship honors, Chris Abelson and Ricky Thornton Jr. Scholpp started fourth and was chased the last 17 times around the track by 2013 champion Smith. The final caution came with five circuits left in the 25-lapper and Dripps, who had started 16th, caught Beaulieu for third with three to go. This is the second time two Canadian drivers qualified for the Saturday show: Scholpp and Aaron Turnbull, also from Estevan, Sask., both made the 2013 main event. Beaulieu is the first driver [Read More]

Nichols, Mills score Stock Car qualifier wins

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 9) – Mike Nichols and Chris Mills both ended their night Wednesday in Boone Speedway’s victory lane. How they got there couldn’t have been more different. Nichols started on the front row and won the first IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s Stock Car qualifying feature with a flag-to-flag run slowed by just a single caution. Mills was the fourth and final different leader in a nightcap interrupted by half a dozen yellows. The former Modified driver and 14th place starter ran in front the last three times around the track. Top four finishers from both races advance to Saturday’s main event and Nichols, two-time champion Randy Brands, Ken Tietz and Derek Green pulled away from the rest of the pack before and after the single stoppage in the opener, on lap seven. They finished in that order but Green was disqualified in post-race tech for an illegal connecting rod, promoting Norman Chesmore to the big show. Brandon Czarapata looked every bit as fast as he was in winning the 2013 [Read More]

Super Nationals Deery show is Thursday

Hot laps will begin at approximately 7 p.m. and the 50-lap, $3,000 to win Deery Brothers Summer Series main event starts as close to 9 p.m. as possible Thursday, Sept. 10 at Boone Speedway. The IMCA Late Model tour event was rescheduled from Monday, opening night of the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s, because of inclement weather. A Speedway Motors Weekly Racing bonus of as much as $1,500 is also at stake for the winner and a minimum of $300 will be paid to start the main event, the 16th of 18 dates on the 2015 series schedule. Sign-in and the draw close 15 minutes before hot laps. Jeff Aikey of Cedar Falls chases a third consecutive and record-tying fifth career Super Nationals Late Model crown.

Day three at Boone Speedway brings another car count record

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 9) – Another car count record was set and qualifying was completed for Hobby Stocks and Northern SportMods on Wednesday, day three of the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. A Super Nationals-best 192 Stock Cars, one more than the previous mark established in 2012, take to the oval at Boone Speedway today. Qualifying also gets underway for the Modifieds as 277 cars had signed in. Parking was at a premium as 518 cars were scheduled to see action. Eleven states and Canada are represented in the Stock Car field while drivers from 24 states and two provinces contend for spots in the Modified main event. Through three days, 841 drivers will have competed at Super Nationals. * The top six qualifiers in two last chance features advance to Hobby Stock and Northern SportMod main events on Saturday. Adam Armstrong got the lead back from Jamie Songer and prevailed in the caution-free Hobby Stock contest. They’ll be joined by Dana Brandt, Sal Hernandez, Steve Larson and Brandon Beeter at the [Read More]

Wednesday Results

Wednesday, September 10 Results IMCA Modifieds A-Main 01 — 1. Kody Scholpp, Estevan, ; 2. Dylan Smith, Osceola, Neb.; 3. Corey Dripps, Reinbeck; 4. Jason Beaulieu, Campbell River, ; 5. Jacob Murray, Hartford; 6. Brian Irvine, Oelwein; 7. Randy Havlik, Ankeny; 8. Mike Jergens, Plover; 9. Josh Ruby, Lakota; 10. Jeff Emerson, Millsap, Texas; 11. Jeff Kohn, Sheridan, Mich.; 12. Justin Auringer, Waterloo; 13. Russ Dickerson, Boone; 14. Eric Mahlik, Green Bay, Wis; 15. Brandon Blochlinger, Concordia, Kan.; 16. Colton Osborn, Lexington, Neb.; 17. Eric Center, Mesa, Ariz.; 18. Harvey Vande Weerd, Alton; 19. Rich Lewerke, Mason City; 20. Jason Seegmiller, Dubuque; 21. Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn.; 22. Jimmy Gustin, Marshalltown; 23. Cayden Carter, Oskaloosa; 24. Jordan Grabouski, Beatrice, Neb.; 25. Jake Bowman, Maquoketa; 26. Troy Cordes, Dunkerton; 27. Dustin Smith, Lake City; 28. Dana Dankert, Columbus, Neb.; 29. Ricky Alvarado, Delta, Colo.; 30. Stone Caleb, Lovington, N.M. A-Main 02 — 1. Mike Hagen, Williston, N.D.; 2. Josh Most, Red Oak; 3. Chris Abelson, Sioux City; 4. Ricky Thornton Jr, Chandler, Ariz.; 5. Josh Gilman, [Read More]